C-mass Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943426278
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2010–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2015
- Location
- Bossier City, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3187426331
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,648
- Expenses
- $12,670
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Independent Foundations
What it reported funding in 2015
The foundation reported 12 grants totaling $12,000. The stated grant purpose was education scholarship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 90% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 95% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filing identifies who received its grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review and the available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 95
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 88
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Missing
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 30.65; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 88th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to individuals not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.